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DeskScapes 3 Beta 1 Bug reports

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A DeskScapes beta has been released.  This build has a new user interface, effects that can be applied to dreams, and works on XP, Vista, and Windows 7.  Sadly, the effects are Windows Vista and Windows 7 only.

Double-clicking a dream no longer loads a dream.  You will need to use the "Apply changes" button.

Post anything that looks odd.  Make sure to give us your system information including your video card, your OS (including 32 or 64 bit), and if it's hard to explain (or even if it isn't) a screenshot.

You may want to ensure you have the latest DirectX9 runtimes (even on Win7) by installing the following : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

There is an issue on some machines with some dreams where the UI may crash out when it builds the dream list.  There will be an update on Friday morning to resolve this.

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Reply #101 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My opinion is that no software should ever (except when there's very good reason, as in it never working anyway) drop functionality in upgrades.
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k1  

Reply #102 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So what's your opinion Redneck ? Should those options be back in final versions of both the programs?
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My opinion is that I would like to see the drag and drop function returned to the final version of WB Config.  As for the dreams, I don't mind clicking apply, rather than double clicking. Just a redneck opinion.  o_O

Offworld Trading Company
Reply #103 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So,in order to have a new pretty face on WindowBlinds Configuration , we lost  the explorer backgrounds section and drag and drop wallpaper?  This is called progress and an "upgrade"? I would appreciate some  word back on if or when they will be available again.

I realize it's a beta but I and RND have asked questions that no-one seems to want to answer. "What drag and drop ability" is not an answer. o_O

Edit: Sorry this is in the wrong forum.:blush:   It should be in WindowBlinds. Could a Mod move it please?

Reply #104 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting MainManB, reply 86


Yes. It is shown as beta 2.91b. (I should learn to look closer before posting stupid questions 8(| )

Regards,

Rasmus Bertelsen
End of MainManB's quote

The only "stupid" questions are the one's we don't ask. Glad was able to help :)

Reply #105 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm using windows 7 and deskscapes 2.91b with desktop collage. There are times after exiting a game, the desktop will turn black, and I have to reapply the desktop collage dreamscene. This happens with or without third-party codecs installed.

Reply #106 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JCR2323, reply 105
I'm using windows 7 and deskscapes 2.91b with desktop collage. There are times after exiting a game, the desktop will turn black, and I have to reapply the desktop collage dreamscene. This happens with or without third-party codecs installed.
End of JCR2323's quote

Desktop Collage is a dynamic dream, and is unlikely to rely on any third party codec. This is a problem that has always been around though. Some games/software doesn't do a clean exit, so deskscapes doesn't detect the shift from fullscreen.

Reply #107 from WinCustomize Forums Top

How do I get the 2.91 beta? Impulse says it need to run as administrator. The only user account I use is admin. I also tried setting the compatibility to run as admin, same error. Is it possible to just download updates and beta without Impulse? I really hate this program. It is always something.

Win 7 64

Reply #108 from Stardock Forums Top

Once in a while the dream turns black, well the screen turns black but the Fences work. Then I try to use

the program to apply it again or a different dream but doesn't come back..BTW my DXDIAG program detects the Directx Version as 10 

Otherwise it works fine most of the time.

Reply #109 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm getting some really choppy playback on some of the "Video Dreams" (not all of them). The ones that are running choppy are causing Explorer to use 100% of one of the CPU cores.

I disabled all non Microsoft video codecs with the utility "InstalledCodec" but it made no difference.

Video drivers (Legacy Cat 9.8) and DirectX (updated today) are current and up-to-date.

Not sure what else to try, any ideas ?

..........BTW, the Dymanic Dreams seem to be running fine |-)

 

Windows 7 RTM x64 biuld 7600

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ @ 2.2Ghz.

GPU - ATI Radeon Sapphire X1900XT 512Mb

4gig dual channel ram

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 6

Deskscapes appears to be activated on this PC
Deskscapes engine appears to be running
(ACR X223W) 1 is attached to Radeon X1900 Series

Deskscape.dll                  2009/09/23 16:37:27
Deskscapes.dll                   2009/09/23 16:37:35
DreamControl32.dll                 2009/09/23 16:36:28
DeskscapesConfig.exe                  2009/09/23 16:36:49
UI\Deskscape.dll                2009/09/23 16:36:40
UI\DeskscapesVideo.dll         2009/09/23 16:36:54
Activate.exe                     2009/09/23 16:36:32
DreamTasks.exe                   2009/09/23 16:36:57
DeskscapesVideo.dll              2009/09/23 16:37:44

Reply #110 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm getting some really choppy playback on some of the "Video Dreams" (not all of them).
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Could be the bit rate or the format of the dream. Mine are fairly low bit rate and are mpeg2, which should not run choppy.

Are you having issues with any of mine?

Reply #111 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting CarGuy1, reply 110

I'm getting some really choppy playback on some of the "Video Dreams" (not all of them).
Could be the bit rate or the format of the dream. Mine are fairly low bit rate and are mpeg2, which should not run choppy.

Are you having issues with any of mine?

End of CarGuy1's quote

Only one of yours, Spectral, the others seem fine. |-)

Some of the ones that are using 100% of one of the cores are:

Patrick Mathews - Clear Blue, Embers, Hyphae, NegativeGravitySnow and RainbowStrings.

muckyman - venus

and a couple of Master Baron's.

Also, while typing this earlier, I was playing around with Deskscapes 3 Configuration to figure out the choppy ones and got a Bluescreen restart from Windows, Ouch!!!! THAT has never happend before :(O

---Edit---

I can paste the minidump text of the crash report if anyone wants to see it...

 

 

 

Reply #112 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Works great on Vista 32 but on both my XP machines Every time I preview more than 3 dreams dreamscapes freezes up and I have to close it through taskmanager

Reply #114 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Neil,

I get the following error from DreamMaker 3 when trying to add additional content files on Hybrid Dreams.

I found a way around it by doing the following...

1) Click on the Hybrid Content button and choose the .hybrid file
2) Click on the Dynamic Content button and choose the .hybrid file
3) Click on the Hybrid Content button
4) At this point Dream Maker will allow you to add files in the Additional files box without the error

 

Reply #115 from Stardock Forums Top

Neil, It dosn't make a difference. It's not always three. If i view enough previews it eventualy freezes.

Reply #116 from WinCustomize Forums Top

funny but for the past year I could make dreams but couldn't play them back

on my own computer without problems , now with the new version and updates

dreams work again as they should - just fine with No problems -using Vista

ummmmmmmm

wonder what the problem was and what fixed it ? ........ have not tried

them yet with windows 7 ........

Reply #117 from Stardock Forums Top


Deskscapes appears to be activated on this PC
Deskscapes engine appears to be running
(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+

Deskscape.dll                  2009/08/25 18:53:28
Deskscapes.dll                   2009/09/21 15:21:06
DreamControl32.dll                 2009/09/21 15:22:28
DeskscapesConfig.exe                  2009/09/21 15:22:49
UI\Deskscape.dll                2009/08/27 18:19:40
UI\DeskscapesVideo.dll         2009/08/25 18:54:54
Activate.exe                     2009/08/25 18:54:32
DreamTasks.exe                   2009/08/25 18:54:57
DeskscapesVideo.dll              2009/08/25 18:53:54

I think I have found a bug or shall we say more of a conflict with another popular program - Yahoo Widgets running under Windows XP.

I am using the latest deskscapes 3 beta, latest yahoo widgets engine (4.5.2) and running Windows XP Professional SP3 (fully updated).

The conflict is that to start the first dream after reboot, or with each change of dream file - if yahoo widgets is already running you have to close down YW, change and apply the dream file - then restart yahoo widgets. Abit annoying as you have to do it every time :(

Other than that Deskscapes 3 beta runs fine. I also dual boot onto Win 7 RTM and deskcapes runs like a dream on there too (see what I did there? runs like a... oh nevermind :P)

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Reply #118 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What happens if you do not restart yahoo widgets after a dream change?

Reply #119 from Stardock Forums Top

Neil, this is the windows error under events viewer,

Details
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 1002
Source: Application Hang
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: ER_HANG_LOG
Message: Hanging application %1, version %2, hang module %3, version %4, hang address 0x%5

 


Deskscapes appears to be activated on this PC
Deskscapes engine appears to be running
(Dell 2408WFP(Digital)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

Deskscape.dll               2009/08/25 13:53:28
Deskscapes.dll                2009/09/21 15:21:06
DreamControl32.dll              2009/09/21 15:22:28
DeskscapesConfig.exe               2009/09/21 15:22:49
UI\Deskscape.dll             2009/08/27 13:19:40
UI\DeskscapesVideo.dll      2009/08/25 13:54:54
Activate.exe                  2009/09/23 16:36:32
DreamTasks.exe                2009/08/25 13:54:57
DeskscapesVideo.dll           2009/08/25 13:53:54

hope this helps

Reply #120 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 118
What happens if you do not restart yahoo widgets after a dream change?
End of Neil's quote

 

Then deskscapes seems to work just fine, I can switch between dreams quite easily.

 

On an unrelated note - the cpu usage for every dream in XP is much less than Windows 7 - why is that?

 

ps. Deskscapes 3 is a great product guys, if I could have one wish for a feature in v3 it would be a random dream changer - either every hour, two hours, six hours, once per day etc etc.

Reply #121 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hi, I am running Windows 7 x32 (MSDN), and I can't install the latest update for DeskScapes from Impulse, it just says that I have an invalid serial number, but all the other apps installed just fine!?? I have an Object Desktop Ultimate Subscription, that is valid until 2010...

 

What can I do to rectify this problem??? 

Reply #122 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting CarGuy1, reply 114
Neil,

I get the following error from DreamMaker 3 when trying to add additional content files on Hybrid Dreams.



I found a way around it by doing the following...

1) Click on the Hybrid Content button and choose the .hybrid file
2) Click on the Dynamic Content button and choose the .hybrid file
3) Click on the Hybrid Content button
4) At this point Dream Maker will allow you to add files in the Additional files box without the error

 
End of CarGuy1's quote

 

I have one question. What is a .hybrid file and how do you create it or get it? I want to make hybrid dreams.

Reply #123 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have one question. What is a .hybrid file and how do you create it or get it? I want to make hybrid dreams.
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There is a PDF in the Desscapes directory with instructions on making hybris dreams.  DreamMaker is there too.

Reply #124 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I was thinking about creating a hybrid tutorial if there is enogh people interested.

Reply #125 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting CarGuy1, reply 124
I was thinking about creating a hybrid tutorial if there is enogh people interested.
End of CarGuy1's quote

I am definitely interested. Have you made any thus far? If so, can I see them by any chance?